He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.
THERESE OF LISIEUXIf I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
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(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
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Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.
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For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
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When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
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I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I humble myself at the thought that I am indeed capable of doing the thing of which I have been accused.
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If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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Love needs to be proved by action.
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Silence does good to the soul.
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The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us – that is all He asks.
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